Mcdowell, John(1942–) John McDowell, a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, was born in Boksburg, South Africa. After receiving his bachelor's from the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland he was awarded a...

John Henry McDowell (born 1942 in Boksburg, South Africa) is a contemporary philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford and now University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written extensively on metaphysics,...

"If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her": The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856. Edited by Thomas E. Buckley, SJ. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xlvi ], 896. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1278-6.) Sally McDowell was...

Edited by Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xlvi], 896. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1278-6.) Sally McDowell was a rare woman, indeed. Not only did she own and manage a large Virginia plantation, she was very...

Police who shot dead a Brazilian man they took for a suicide bomber in a plot on London's transit system committed an error but not a crime, a police lawyer told a court Tuesday.London's police force is on trial for allegedly violating health and safety...